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URBIO President
Presidents are main representatives of URBIO and hold the contact to SCBD and the Global Partnership. They are responsible for the organisation of the whole network including the URBIO Newsletter and the conferences.
Maria Ignatieva
Maria Ignatieva
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
URBIO President
URBIO Vice-President 2014-2019
Charles H. Nilon
University of Missouri, Columbia MO, USA
URBIO President
URBIO Head Scientist UrbioNet 2014-2019
URBIO Secretary General
Organiser of the 2022 URBIO conference, helping with the URBIO Declaration.
Responsible editor for publishing the conference results and editing special journal issues. Holding contact to CBD COP and other organisation.
Diana Dushkova
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Germany
RUDN University: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
URBIO Secretary General
Conference Organizer URBIO 2022 and coming URBIO 2024
URBIO Senior Advisors
Advice and support of the presidium
Norbert Müller
University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
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URBIO Founder & President 2008 - 2014
Conference Organiser URBIO 2008
Advisory Board
Haripriya Gundimeda
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
URBIO President 2014-2019
Conference Organiser URBIO 2012
URBIO Secretary General 2012-2014
Peter Werner
Institute for Housing and Environment, Darmstadt, Germany
Conference Co-organizer URBIO 2008
President of Competence Network Urban Ecology (CONTUREC)
Representative Office of IUCN
IUCN Representative
Sarel Cilliers
North-West University, Potchestroom, South Africa
Conference Organizer URBIO 2018
Mark E. Hostetler
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Yuandong Hu
Northeast Forestry University
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
Myla Aronson
Rutledge, the State University of New Jersey
Ian MacGregor-Fors
University of Helsinki
Basil Iannone
University of Florida
Patrick Bohlen
University of Central Florida
Wayne C. Zipperer
USDA Forest Service, Gainsville, FL, USA
Sabrina Drill
UC Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
Dagmar Haase
Humboldt University, Berlin Germany
Marcus Hedblom
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Youngkeun Song
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Nam Choon Kim
Dankook University / Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Techniques (KOSERT), Republic of Korea
Conference Organiser URBIO 2014
URBIO General Secretary 2014-2016
Erik Wood
California State University, Los Angeles
Christine Brodsky
Pittsburg State University, USA
Conference 2024 organiser
Chundi Chen
Southwest Jiaotong University
URBIO Presidium & Advisory Board
The URBIO Presidium is elected by the URBIO Advisory Board every 4 years. The first URBIO President was the URBIO founder, Norbert Müller (2008-2014). During the 4th URBIO conference 2014 in Incheon, Korea, Haripriya Gundimeda was elected as President of the network. In the tradition of the network the organiser of the latest URBIO conference is designated Secretary General. From November 2014 to September 2019 the URBIO network had three Vice Presidents and Deputy Vice Presidents, each presiding over a main topic of the network and with special tasks within the board. The network also has the Senior Advisors Group. The Advisory Board supports the Presidium in their work. The URBIO Advisory Board usually meets at URBIO conferences and workshops. During the last URBIO conference 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa, new Presidents and Secretary General were suggested. In summer 2019, Maria Ignatieva and Charles Nilon were elected as Presidents. Based on suggestion of the Presidents and Senior Advisors, Advisory Board members have been confirmed.
Northeast Forestry University
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology